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Intro -- Navigating History: Economy, Society, Knowledge,and Nature: Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr C.A. Davids -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Davids and Goliath: How Books Helped to Combat Historians' Adversaries -- Part 1: Resources of...
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intensive cultivation of cotton -- APPENDIX 2.2 -- THE COTTON TRADE IN SOUTH INDIA -- APPENDIX 2.3 -- ON THE SOURCES FOR TABLE 2 … England -- Kings and laborers in South India -- Merchants and kings in South India -- Merchants and the Company state -- The …
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This study traces the long-term history of debt recovery and insolvency laws in India. It tries to identify the … socioeconomic factors that led to temporal evolution of such law in in India. The study offers insights into how socioeconomic and … in the cultural context of India …
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the Indian economy. We highlight four main points. First, the Government of India had a strong influence on railways from … railway development. We review the relationship between Government of India ownership and operating efficiency. Perhaps …
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This article has developed from a desire to develop a theoretical position for “Nature” in the context of modernity. It argues that the near-total absence of theories of nature in modern Western social thought stands in stark contrast to the remarkable extent to which nature has assisted and...
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This work studies railroad landscape of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIP) as a symbol of imperial power in India …. The GIP was India’s first railroad, built in the mid-19th century in order to set up an export economy in raw cotton …. Following suspension of American supplies in the wake of the American Civil War of 1861-65, Britain increasingly turned to India …
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A captive centre is a business unit that is owned and provides services to the parent firm from an offshore location. In this paper we seek to apply a historical perspective in order to understand what factors shaped its development path. In particular we are interested to document and explain...
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